Where: United Kingdom (52.2° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 1.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Psiloceras planorbis ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Hettangian (201.6 - 196.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, cherty/siliceous shale and fine-grained, blue limestone
•"fine-grained blue limestone, dividing into thin slabs resembling the Solenhofen stone" Strickland, 1840
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Rev. P.B. Brodie; reposited in the BMNH, USNM
• Purchased by British Museum in 1898. Some material given by Brodie to Mr. Lacoe, who donated it to the US National Museum.
Primary reference: P. E. S. Whalley. 1982. Bintoniella brodiei Handlirsch (Orthoptera) from the lower Lias of the English Channel, with a review of British bintoniellid fossils. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 36(2):143-149 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 113956: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.08.2011, edited by Jered Karr
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